/vr/ - Retro Games

Ikari Warriors.

The only way to beat it is using the ABBA code. Otherwise, you have to spend hours and hours memorizing that shit game that is no fun to begin with.

I doubt very many people have beaten Ikari Warriors without using the cheat.

Those Ninja Gaiden games are hard, but they're fun. It's likely that a person would sit down and memorize the levels in order to beat it.

My vote for hardest retro game will always be that bullshit, no-fun, piece of crap Ikari Warriors.

>>1391590
That game was too boring to actually try at
Lawl

>>1391567
NG 1 and 2 are harder than 3.
Yeah sure you get limited lives, but the enemies don't respawn and you can use your sub weapons much more often.
However NG 3 is the best just for those reasons.

>>1391567
Step it up sempai

Gradius III
Image Fight
Dragon Blaze
whichever the hardest arcade Ghouls 'n Goblins game is

Contra 3?

That stage when you are jumping from missile to missile, holy god.

>>1391795
Contra series in general isn't the hardest anything.

Is gradius 3 arcade different than gradius 3 SNES? Because I beat that shit on the first try a few days ago.

>>1391809
And 3 is probably the easiest in the series

>>1391827
Also true. Only because it's so short though, I'd say.

>>1391824
It has a couple different stages that didn't make it into the SNES version but more importantly isn't plagued with slowdown and is very considerably difficult. Think of it like this actually: Gradius III was too hard for its own good; however, Konami made the opposite mistake for the SNES version and made it a bit too easy instead.

>>1391836
*very considerably more difficult

Also you can't continue at all in the arcade version. Another credit simply means a new playthrough.

>>1391824
the arcade one is much, much harder

>>1391827
I'd say hard mode is a lot tougher than later loops in NES Contra and Super C at least.

>>1391841
apart from that the levels were just plain harder.
enemies would be spawned above, below, or even behind you a lot more. Even if you got max power ups you could still easily be killed.

bosses were much less predictable and things just moved faster

i know ninja gaiden is hard but come on...infinite continues....a life bar that can take like 8 hits...

all of the hardest action games were on the arcade

arcade ghosts n ghouls/contra was much harder than any platformer on the nes

arcade dondonpachi and gradius were harder than any console shmup ever made

violent storm is more difficult than any other console beat em up ever made.

>>1391872
>arcade contra
>was much harder than any platformer on the nes
Arcade Contra was barely even harder than NES Contra.

>>1391872
>a life bar that can take like 8 hits

That is fucking wrong.

Also i'm absolutely certain Battletoads and Ghosts n' Goblins are harder on the NES, and Contra isn't more difficult on any other platform, it's the same on every platform.

>>1391872
>arcade dondonpachi and gradius were harder than any console shmup ever made
Now you're reaching. The original Gradius is really not that difficult.

Wizardy IV
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Battletoads
Ghosts n Goblins
Ecco the Dolphin

>>1391905
The arcade Contra is quite a bit different than the NES one. Though I'm not sure if it's really any harder. The only difficulty difference I've noticed is that the better graphics actually make the base stages easier because it's easier to judge projectile depth.

>>1391872
NG 3 has limited continues and the damage Ryu can take is cut to like half.

Image Fight
No exaggeration, loop 2 penalty area is likely the hardest video game level of all time.
Gradius IV
Yes, this is harder than III, even if by a slim margin. It has no slowdown after all.
Tatsujin Oh
Either this, or the JP version of Fire Shark.
Genpei Toumaden
One life only and it has to be cleared on one credit. This game also throws way too many enemies at you as compensation for you having a life bar.
Umihara Kawase Shun
Don't think much of this game's difficulty? Try going for the Field 58 exit

The only hard part in Ninja Gaiden is the last boss that kicks you back an entire act if you die.
And even then it's just tedious bullshit.

I think a legitimate list would be filled with obscure Japan-only games that were so hard due to terrible design, awful controls, bad programming, all that contributes to being nearly impossible to play, that they never brought them to the US so we won't know of them. I mean just look at half the stuff Arino has to play. Some of those are 10x more insane than something like Contra.

This

>>1391996

X-Kaliber 2097.

At easy difficulties, this game was a blast.

At higher (especially the highest) difficulties, the boss fights were pretty much impossible to beat before the time ran out.

Awesome music track though.

Old Sierra adventures. Some of them were impossible and it can't get harder than that.
Make a thread about fun hard games the next time.

I figured I'll actually beat the Ninja Gaiden NES trilogy before playing the 2004 trilogy . I played the first game but never did beat it.

Anyway, should I go with the NES versions or with the SNES collection?

>>1391905
youve probably never played the arcade versions of contra

the enemies are much faster and move in less predictable ways. the infinite spawning enemies spawn at like 4 times the rate.

i could easily beat contra or super c on 1 credit. I cant even beat the third of super c with 1 credit.

This game gave me the most trouble.

>>1391927
yeah and theres a respawning 1up in easy reach for most stages. you practically have unlimited continues for this reason

only a handful of enemies can halve ryus health.
most of the bosses can be nuked down in like 10 seconds with the right ninjitsu

once you get the sword power up the enemies become much more trivial

please stop exagerating. ng3 isn't that hard.

>>1392048
I wish I could find a IIgs emulator that doesn't suck so I could properly replay this.

I can't take the genesis version with its shitty music.

>>1392038
NES versions all the way. better graphics, better sound, no censorship, and better controls.

>>1392068
NES it is then.

>>1391872
Arcade Contra was pretty easy matey.

>>1391920
No I take that back, there's also those finicky aiming controls that get you killed often.

Because
FUCK THAT TIMER

>>1391919
Battletoads isn't that hard after the speeder bike and airplane levels. I managed to memorize them (It was my only NES game for a long time as a kid) and I can tell you that once you got those down, it's still difficult but not that much.

>>1392068
Tho NG 3 SNES had some fine music.Liked this version more then NES
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6n4EAqTQs&list=PL071427D661994C53
but wholeheartedly agree about NES being the better choice overall

>>1392521
Now arctic cavern,intruder excluder and terra tubes I'ld agree 100% but turbo tunnel isn't that tough!